Make sure you go back and watch Part 1 of our Cleola visit! Cemetery Restoration Fund: www.paypal.me/rwrightphotography For more Adventures: linktr.ee/adventuresintohistory My flashlight link: www.olightstore.com/s/UPTJSG Save 10 percent: SAIH10 (not valid on sales items and X9R) Mail: Sidestep Adventures PO BOX 206 Waverly Hall, Georgia 31831
That mill; the dam and engineering feats...And all with NO PERMITS, or inspections, or government specifications... just pure American determination and ingenuity !
It's a 1948 Ford Super Deluxe. Those rear hinged doors are called suicide doors because the passenger would have to lean way out of the car to close it. If the car was moving you would have to fight the wind to pull it shut and in the days before seat belts that could be problematic. Also if the passenger was leaning way out and another car struck the door while he/she was attempting to close it they would get mashed by the door.
I'm happy that Joy got presented with the wheel. Very fitting as her family was thew last to be connected to it. It's always great hearing about Dan's vast knowledge of the area and getting to see what remains of this site. Beautiful area with the rapids, no wonder the first owner wanted his mill there. Thank you, Robert, Dan, and Joy for showing us the history of this place,
Believe this to be the very best of Robert's AdventuresIntoHistory series. Suicide Doors were hinged on the rear side of the door, if they became unlatched, the wind could blow them open. The Ford is probably 1947 or 48. Super nice of Dan to gift Joy with the cog wheel from the mill. All of the scenery is excellent. Thank you all.
I so appreciate the video, I've seen mills in operation in my life, one a flour mill and the other used to produce wool skeins in new Brunswick, Canada. Mills fascinate me as to their operation and use of water to generate "power". The backstory provided is equally as fascinating, a treasure of memories. Thanks to all involved!
You gave us the grand tour today! 😊 Mr. Dan has a wealth of information! So impressive. Love that you got him sharing about so much. So happy for Joy that she was gifted with the wooden wheel from Dan. She was touched.💜 I'm so happy for her as she got to see relics of the mill. Including the initials! Dan had a ton of information about it. I could picture in my mind's eye what he was saying. The mill was absolutely massive! The labor that went into getting it built (a huge task in itself), up, and running was A LOT. I was thinking that if I'd have been Joy I would've been feeling sad about the house. I'm sure she felt it. She'd spent a lot of time there, has wonderful memories of the place, and remembered how things looked. To see it now...😢 The trash especially saddens me. The aging of the house is going to happen, but people shouldn't be leaving their trash there. The old car looked...old!😄 Boy, it's seen better days. I wonder if cars can be haunted. If so, this one would be a likely candidate. I always wonder about their stories. Who owned them. Did they belong to families. Why was it left out in a field? Maybe it was a get-away car for a bank heist!🤑 Thanks for this super interesting tour of these great historical sites. I'm glad you get the stories on video. Such an important way to document. Transcripts of these spoken stories are great, too.😊
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟!! Once again Dan and his vast knowledge and Joy and her knowledge of family and the places certainly weave together a picture of the past and a legacy. Amazing history, an amazing place! Wonderful tour and details to an impressive history of engineering, unbelievable amount of hard labor and the lives behind establishing the mill. The excitement of the visit is definitely shared and amplified by the personal connection and discovery of the initials, writing and the wonderful door latch, treasures, all. Joy, how cool, you get the wooden wheel and that Dan saved it! The ruins while marvelous in story telling is also a stark reminder of how quickly time and nature reclaim the human path. This is why documentation, video, photographs and story telling, both oral and written is so very important, and why Robert does what he does. The car, suicide doors had unreliable latches that when at higher speeds, the wind could suddenly open the doors and the passengers were in danger of failing out. I can't tell the year, but 1933-39 is the most prevalent years, Ford to my knowledge. Outstanding sharing, Joy, Dan, and Robert. The hours and hours spent behind the editing of this is detailed and skillful, Robert. I truly appreciate you all. Enjoyed!!❣👍❣👍❣
To Dan Joy and Robert. This was a great piece you-all did. It was amazing. Love Robert and the old car. You made me laugh. You do love the old vehicles. Take care.All of you.
Every time Dan is asked a question he replies, "Well......" as if he may not know the answer, but then he proceeds to tell the whole history of a place. You are a treasure, sir
I’m telling ya, Mr. Dan is getting a huge following, along with the channel. I’d love to had a childhood like Mr. Dans growing up in Waverly Hall, meeting all those people from the past that just wanted to have someone to tell the history too so it wouldn’t be forgotten. I envy Robert being able to do what he does with who he does it with. I’m so glad for y’all, with the success with the channel Robert, and the old Byrd farm, I wish you all many more successful years. Mr. Dan, I love to listen to him. He should have something like a Vlog or Live segment where people can send him questions or he can talk about anything, cause we would listen. He could do it at his shop and call it something like “Jot it Down Time”. Sort of a spin off from The Lub and Abner Show. For that matter, Robert and Dan could do a show in the shop like Lub and Abner. I’m just joshin. But I would like to see more of Mr. Dans store. Maybe you all could do a video showing what’s in the shop and I’m still waiting to hear if Joy is single. I’m a old country boy that loves the south and has 4x4 full size Chevy and I love the outdoors 😊
Joy should dress in overalls, pose just like her aunt in same place where the picture was taken. I think it will be a sweet picture. What a wonderful tour!
This is so amazing! I believe this is one of the most interesting videos you've guys have done. I read Joy's aritacle online too. Very amazing your family had such an connection to this plaace, JOy. NOw you'll will have to venture to Lockhart AL. It looks almost like a ghost town. I think the way the mill was set up is amazing and what a work of art that house is.
Thank you, that was great guys. You have a wealth of knowledge between you. It is such a beautiful, peaceful area. The water was so nice. So many lives lived and worked there. The stone walls are mind blowing. Just imagine the effort it took, to build them. Thanks Robert, Joy and Dan.
It would be awesome that the gentleman that owns the property would give Joy that piece of mill stone to put in her yard for a memorial to the place and family
Good gravey! I graduated high school in 1980. I am starting to resemble that there Mill. It is beautiful so I suppose that I am too. Like it, a bit cracking! Wonderful video, thank you and God Bless 🙏🏽 Seattle kin ❤
I could listen to Dan tell local History Stories +about folks I don't even know), for hours. 🔺I have a suggestion, a Holiday Sidestep History Special: A Cabin or house with a F8replace, a nice blaze with those little fire sparks and crackling sounds just doing utz rolling dance as Dan settles inti a comfortable Rocker/Easy Chair, and Robert, Cecil, and the Gang of various folks that have participated in the videos/tours/History gather round a table. The table is lightly decorated with a few fresh pieces of pine, a touch of Holly, and a 3" X 5" Candle in a glass container, in the center of the table (Dollar General has some for about $3.00 On a Sidetable or Buffet (that antique piese by the Dining Table, which holds the Silver, serving ware, placemats, and Linens), "Cover with a protective Tablecloth or Runner and Tile Pieces to set any heated items on, and the following: Selected desired items: Hot Cider, Hot Buttered Rum, Hot Tea, etc or (Hot Dr Pepper with a slice or Lemon) 😁 and Irish Biscuits (Tea Cakes, Butter Cookies) a dish of (Peppermint Bark), (freshly shelled assorted nuts), (fresh Cinnamon Sticks: to add to the Hot Beverage as a Stir stick and for flavor), (Peppermint Saltwater Taffy), and a dish of (dried Peaches/Apricots/Pineapple), and a dish of (Broken Dark Chocolate drizzeled with Carmel and lite sprinkle of Sea Salt). (Dollar Tree plain Gold or Silver or Red, "plain colors" disposable/paper plates and matching napkins.) Assorted Cups for serving the Hot drinks, preferbably plain White old Cups.
Speaking of the Parson's Room, my grandmother told me about taking in the preachers when she was about 4 or 5 years old. She was born in 1897 so it would have been really early 1900's. The family would take in preachers (so they must have had some kind of 'Parson's Room') as the church was on one side, and sometimes mountain men. There was the grange on the other side of the house but I don't really know where the mountain men came from or why they housed them but Grandma said that when the mountain men came over her siblings and herself would slide off the back of the couch and the men would teach them languages they picked up in their adventures (this is in the Pacific Northwest). But when the preachers came through, they did not entertain them the same. She never told me how they entertained the preachers but I suspect it was not as much fun.
Love history even if's not from Eastern North Carolina. Great video, the old pictures, the remain of old mill, the old store, old house great, l too love exploring. I do wonder if the old timber remaining from the old mill in the video could not be salvaged and preserved. It would be great! Thanks for sharing!
Originally it was the Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad, running from Columbus, GA to McDonough, GA. It sold to Southern Railway and was Norfolk Southern when it was abandoned and scrapped in the mid 1990’s.
That was a very good exploration into history , very entertaining. We're from northeast Louisiana. I'll give you a tip. All old cars have the. year on the driver's side taillight lens. There is a series of numbers on the bottom of lens . The last two numbers are the year. Yes this was a very good show
There's remnants of a mill on the east side of the spillway out of Beed's Lake in Hampton, Iowa. I bet you wouldn't even know it was there now. It was totally overgrown 10 years ago and the average person wouldn't know to even look for it.
In sporting stores you can buy pants that deflect the thorns and briars they are part jeans and the other part is something my son wears when he’s hunting and I think that they are wranglers but not absolutely sure. I’m enjoying the Cleola. I sure would like to see the wheel on the building.
I know all to well how serious it is. My son's wife was with friends at a bridal shower. Her close friend had an attack drop dead before they could help her took just a moment hit so fast.
It would be great if there’s a million/billioniar (spelling mistakes) would make a replica version of this town the mill, dam , and buildings for a museum and have an area to park and use a train to take people to and from there and make it a running station! Instead of spending so much money money on Government spending and wasting money.
Make sure you go back and watch Part 1 of our Cleola visit!
Cemetery Restoration Fund: www.paypal.me/rwrightphotography
For more Adventures: linktr.ee/adventuresintohistory
My flashlight link: www.olightstore.com/s/UPTJSG Save 10 percent: SAIH10 (not valid on sales items and X9R)
Mail: Sidestep Adventures
PO BOX 206
Waverly Hall, Georgia 31831
That mill; the dam and engineering feats...And all with NO PERMITS, or inspections, or government specifications... just pure American determination and ingenuity !
Mr.Dan is a walking history book..just love listening to Mr.Dan talk.
Thanks for another great video, Great to see and hear from Dan, a man of history! He would have made a great professor, no one would ever miss class
So, so happy to see Mr. Dan back. It's not the same without his stories.
Dan ALWAYS cracks me up with his dry wit... "Bottles and jars "... 😆
It's a 1948 Ford Super Deluxe. Those rear hinged doors are called suicide doors because the passenger would have to lean way out of the car to close it. If the car was moving you would have to fight the wind to pull it shut and in the days before seat belts that could be problematic. Also if the passenger was leaning way out and another car struck the door while he/she was attempting to close it they would get mashed by the door.
I'm happy that Joy got presented with the wheel. Very fitting as her family was thew last to be connected to it. It's always great hearing about Dan's vast knowledge of the area and getting to see what remains of this site. Beautiful area with the rapids, no wonder the first owner wanted his mill there. Thank you, Robert, Dan, and Joy for showing us the history of this place,
Joy was so thrilled! ❤
When Dan gifted the wheel to Joy I got choked up. It was a very special moment. Overall this was a great episode.
Believe this to be the very best of Robert's AdventuresIntoHistory series. Suicide Doors were hinged on the rear side of the door, if they became unlatched, the wind could blow them open. The Ford is probably 1947 or 48. Super nice of Dan to gift Joy with the cog wheel from the mill. All of the scenery is excellent. Thank you all.
I so appreciate the video, I've seen mills in operation in my life, one a flour mill and the other used to produce wool skeins in new Brunswick, Canada. Mills fascinate me as to their operation and use of water to generate "power". The backstory provided is equally as fascinating, a treasure of memories. Thanks to all involved!
Always love these times in history vlogs, thanks Robert, Dan and Joy!
amazing to find old homesteads with house still intacted. my great grandparents home is being lived to this day, northern minnesota
That's great. Keep it in the family.
@suzanneflowers2230 sadly it's no longer within my family but I can go visit it anytime I want.
You gave us the grand tour today! 😊
Mr. Dan has a wealth of information! So impressive. Love that you got him sharing about so much.
So happy for Joy that she was gifted with the wooden wheel from Dan. She was touched.💜
I'm so happy for her as she got to see relics of the mill. Including the initials! Dan had a ton of information about it. I could picture in my mind's eye what he was saying. The mill was absolutely massive! The labor that went into getting it built (a huge task in itself), up, and running was A LOT.
I was thinking that if I'd have been Joy I would've been feeling sad about the house. I'm sure she felt it. She'd spent a lot of time there, has wonderful memories of the place, and remembered how things looked. To see it now...😢 The trash especially saddens me. The aging of the house is going to happen, but people shouldn't be leaving their trash there.
The old car looked...old!😄 Boy, it's seen better days. I wonder if cars can be haunted. If so, this one would be a likely candidate. I always wonder about their stories. Who owned them. Did they belong to families. Why was it left out in a field? Maybe it was a get-away car for a bank heist!🤑
Thanks for this super interesting tour of these great historical sites. I'm glad you get the stories on video. Such an important way to document. Transcripts of these spoken stories are great, too.😊
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟!! Once again Dan and his vast knowledge and Joy and her knowledge of family and the places certainly weave together a picture of the past and a legacy. Amazing history, an amazing place! Wonderful tour and details to an impressive history of engineering, unbelievable amount of hard labor and the lives behind establishing the mill. The excitement of the visit is definitely shared and amplified by the personal connection and discovery of the initials, writing and the wonderful door latch, treasures, all. Joy, how cool, you get the wooden wheel and that Dan saved it! The ruins while marvelous in story telling is also a stark reminder of how quickly time and nature reclaim the human path. This is why documentation, video, photographs and story telling, both oral and written is so very important, and why Robert does what he does. The car, suicide doors had unreliable latches that when at higher speeds, the wind could suddenly open the doors and the passengers were in danger of failing out. I can't tell the year, but 1933-39 is the most prevalent years, Ford to my knowledge. Outstanding sharing, Joy, Dan, and Robert. The hours and hours spent behind the editing of this is detailed and skillful, Robert. I truly appreciate you all. Enjoyed!!❣👍❣👍❣
Very well written!😊
@cindys.9688 thank you, your's is as well! 😊
I LOVE the longer videos!! Especially the extra extra longer ones.
Please tell Joy, Mr. Dan how nice of them to do this with you. Also how blessed Joy is to see family history up close.
To Dan Joy and Robert. This was a great piece you-all did. It was amazing. Love Robert and the old car. You made me laugh. You do love the old vehicles. Take care.All of you.
Every time Dan is asked a question he replies, "Well......" as if he may not know the answer, but then he proceeds to tell the whole history of a place. You are a treasure, sir
1948 Ford Sedan
This is the type of ezplore I love about this channel
Mr. Dan, you amaze me. You are a walking history book. I’m so glad this and other locations and information is being filmed.
I’m telling ya, Mr. Dan is getting a huge following, along with the channel. I’d love to had a childhood like Mr. Dans growing up in Waverly Hall, meeting all those people from the past that just wanted to have someone to tell the history too so it wouldn’t be forgotten. I envy Robert being able to do what he does with who he does it with. I’m so glad for y’all, with the success with the channel Robert, and the old Byrd farm, I wish you all many more successful years. Mr. Dan, I love to listen to him. He should have something like a Vlog or Live segment where people can send him questions or he can talk about anything, cause we would listen. He could do it at his shop and call it something like “Jot it Down Time”. Sort of a spin off from The Lub and Abner Show. For that matter, Robert and Dan could do a show in the shop like Lub and Abner. I’m just joshin. But I would like to see more of Mr. Dans store. Maybe you all could do a video showing what’s in the shop and I’m still waiting to hear if Joy is single. I’m a old country boy that loves the south and has 4x4 full size Chevy and I love the outdoors 😊
Absolutely phenomenal experience watching this video! Thank you Robert, Dan and Joy!
Joy should dress in overalls, pose just like her aunt in same place where the picture was taken. I think it will be a sweet picture. What a wonderful tour!
Fascinating history. Always appreciate the before and after pics !
What a wonderful history
Great video, lots of fascinating history.
Thanks guys! Always so interesting!!
Thank y'all for sharing,I loved every minute! ❤
Thank you for posting the video, this history RUclipsr will say, “history they deserves to be remembered”
Awesome history!
Joy, you did a great job talking about the area.
Another fantastic video
If the taillight lens are still on car, they are normally stamped with the year.
This is another great video of the past history, sad to see everything return to the dust
This is so amazing! I believe this is one of the most interesting videos you've guys have done. I read Joy's aritacle online too. Very amazing your family had such an connection to this plaace, JOy. NOw you'll will have to venture to Lockhart AL. It looks almost like a ghost town. I think the way the mill was set up is amazing and what a work of art that house is.
Thank you, that was great guys. You have a wealth of knowledge between you. It is such a beautiful, peaceful area. The water was so nice. So many lives lived and worked there. The stone walls are mind blowing. Just imagine the effort it took, to build them. Thanks Robert, Joy and Dan.
So interesting! I don't live anywhere near Georgia, but this is amazing!
What fun it was to hear this history lesson
Thank you so very much
It would be awesome that the gentleman that owns the property would give Joy that piece of mill stone to put in her yard for a memorial to the place and family
I still use my mom's antique Kelvinator clothes dryer! Fantastic dryer!
What a fantastic historical location! That was an engineering feat in its day!
Good gravey! I graduated high school in 1980.
I am starting to resemble that there Mill. It is beautiful so I suppose that I am too. Like it, a bit cracking!
Wonderful video, thank you and God Bless 🙏🏽
Seattle kin ❤
I’m intrigued😮again from your history and ways of presenting your story. Thank you all for taking me along ! ❤
Perfect setting for the Hound of Baskerville. 😆
Interesting video
Would love to see this in person, but since I can’t this is the next best thing! Good job yall 🫶🏼
I could listen to Dan tell local History Stories +about folks I don't even know), for hours.
🔺I have a suggestion, a Holiday Sidestep History Special:
A Cabin or house with a F8replace, a nice blaze with those little fire sparks and crackling sounds just doing utz rolling dance as Dan settles inti a comfortable Rocker/Easy Chair, and Robert, Cecil, and the Gang of various folks that have participated in the videos/tours/History gather round a table.
The table is lightly decorated with a few fresh pieces of pine, a touch of Holly, and a 3" X 5" Candle in a glass container, in the center of the table (Dollar General has some for about $3.00
On a Sidetable or Buffet (that antique piese by the Dining Table, which holds the Silver, serving ware, placemats, and Linens), "Cover with a protective Tablecloth or Runner and Tile Pieces to set any heated items on, and the following:
Selected desired items: Hot Cider, Hot Buttered Rum, Hot Tea, etc or (Hot Dr Pepper with a slice or Lemon) 😁 and Irish Biscuits (Tea Cakes, Butter Cookies) a dish of (Peppermint Bark), (freshly shelled assorted nuts), (fresh Cinnamon Sticks: to add to the Hot Beverage as a Stir stick and for flavor), (Peppermint Saltwater Taffy), and a dish of (dried Peaches/Apricots/Pineapple), and a dish of (Broken Dark Chocolate drizzeled with Carmel and lite sprinkle of Sea Salt).
(Dollar Tree plain Gold or Silver or Red, "plain colors" disposable/paper plates and matching napkins.)
Assorted Cups for serving the Hot drinks, preferbably plain White old Cups.
I enjoy watching you guys ! Beautiful old house......
Speaking of the Parson's Room, my grandmother told me about taking in the preachers when she was about 4 or 5 years old. She was born in 1897 so it would have been really early 1900's. The family would take in preachers (so they must have had some kind of 'Parson's Room') as the church was on one side, and sometimes mountain men. There was the grange on the other side of the house but I don't really know where the mountain men came from or why they housed them but Grandma said that when the mountain men came over her siblings and herself would slide off the back of the couch and the men would teach them languages they picked up in their adventures (this is in the Pacific Northwest). But when the preachers came through, they did not entertain them the same. She never told me how they entertained the preachers but I suspect it was not as much fun.
Love and enjoy your videos. May the lord bless and protect you bringing out old history and the past.
The bones of the house look good. If possible, it would be a good family project to restore it. I wish I had my Granny's house.
Love history even if's not from Eastern North Carolina. Great video, the old pictures, the remain of old mill, the old store, old house great, l too love exploring. I do wonder if the old timber remaining from the old mill in the video could not be salvaged and preserved. It would be great! Thanks for sharing!
Y'all never told the name of the railroad! Being a Georgia born railroad fanatic, would love to know.
Originally it was the Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad, running from Columbus, GA to McDonough, GA. It sold to Southern Railway and was Norfolk Southern when it was abandoned and scrapped in the mid 1990’s.
I would take the car frame and make it the centerpiece of a unique flower garden.
It's a later '40s Ford. Think 1948 or so. One can tell it still had some of the pre-war design, but not yet the futuristic '50s design.
That was a very good exploration into history , very entertaining. We're from northeast Louisiana. I'll give you a tip. All old cars have the. year on the driver's side taillight lens. There is a series of numbers on the bottom of lens . The last two numbers are the year.
Yes this was a very good show
There's remnants of a mill on the east side of the spillway out of Beed's Lake in Hampton, Iowa. I bet you wouldn't even know it was there now. It was totally overgrown 10 years ago and the average person wouldn't know to even look for it.
Awesome video to all! Did y'all film this in the spring? Noticed the jonquils or daffodils blooming...❤❤❤
My Great Grandma was Lodella Reeves Batchelor
In sporting stores you can buy pants that deflect the thorns and briars they are part jeans and the other part is something my son wears when he’s hunting and I think that they are wranglers but not absolutely sure. I’m enjoying the Cleola. I sure would like to see the wheel on the building.
Did they not have to worry about termites?
I am 70 years old and I remember falling out of my parents car in Alabama that had suicide doors.
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That is a 1947 or 1948 ford. Can be varified by the round parking lights.
What's with all the bottles?
All those glass jars was this a moonshiner
1946 to 1948 ford sedan
The car is definitely late 30s early 40s. Looks too far gone to be worth fixing, but would make an awesome piece of yes art.
I know there is no sense in it....but you should D2 the stone with initials so that it stands as a memorial. ❤
I know all to well how serious it is. My son's wife was with friends at a bridal shower. Her close friend had an attack drop dead before they could help her took just a moment hit so fast.
That piller is a Dan and a 1/2 tall!
Just saying as a fellow Dan....
7:52 Lol
The car looks like 1930’s .
What's the FB to where she posted the pictures of the house
Adventures Into History page on FB. She hasn’t posted it yet.
But she has been posting pics she took this day.
It would be great if there’s a million/billioniar (spelling mistakes) would make a replica version of this town the mill, dam , and buildings for a museum and have an area to park and use a train to take people to and from there and make it a running station! Instead of spending so much money money on Government spending and wasting money.
Looks like a 47 ish ford
Ietorm I 1962 or 1963.
What fun it was to hear this history lesson thank you so much